Supernatural: Back to the Future Beginning
Sep. 8th, 2010 11:15 pmAfter having ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
animus_wyrmis linking me to fic all day, tonight I watched Provenance and Scarecrow for the first time. It was sort of exciting! Now that I have been disillusioned and know that SPN 6 doesn't start til the 24th, maybe my goal should be to watch the rest of the Season 1-3 episodes I skipped on the Great Supernatural Marathon of the spring. Because these were really really good, and omg, season 1 Sam is adorable, I remember liking him so much and then I stopped and when did that happen? He has nice hair, and he's so dorky and into art history and research and where did that Sammy go? Also, when did Dean stop being nice to Sam? Seriously, going back to this earlier time, it's so clear now just how crazy their relationship is in the later seasons. It really moves from lalalala we're brothers, allalala, the two best friends that anyone could have, hunt hunt hunt, fight breakup get back together where's dad?, to epic semi-erotic codependency, and I think I miss the former!
Anyway. So I watched these out of order, since wyrm linked me to this: http://hateable.livejournal.com/156492.html and so then I had to go watch 1.19, Provenance. In which basically Dean sits around trying to be Sam's wingman, and Sam flirts awkwardly with Sarah Blake, the art dealer's awesome daughter. Except he didn't really flirt. That's what I liked about it - he was so straight up with her, like when she asked how Dean got into the warehouse or whatever, and Sam says 'lies and subterfuge, mostly.' He doesn't gloss over stuff with her! I want that to blend with his relationship with Jess. I want Jess to be alive, and to know about the hunting life, and yeah. Anyway, this episode was awesome. Dean says, "Sam. Marry her." And I cried. And there was a creepy painting but lo! it was not the creepy father, it was the creepy little adopted girl - and we veer straight into the plot of that horror movie Orphan, the one where the 30-something woman pretends to be a little girl so she can get adopted and kill her foster families. Yep. So Dean saves the day, and Sam gets the girl, and it was adorable and fun and I looooved it.
And then I watched 1.11, Scarecrow, because I wanted to know about this Emily chick. And I loved this one, too! Pagan fertility divinities, APPLE PIE OMG DEAN I just about wept when he threw that line about like, hope your apple pie's worth it, or whatever, because Deaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, and his apple-pie life, and arrrrgh. Here's one thing though - I'm not sure I approve of the fact that whenever there's some sort of ancient god involved - this one, Samhain, that one with the couple who make wreaths and tear Sam and Dean's nails out - the people who are trying to honor/raise/placate that pagan god are presented as like, blank and sort of unmotivated. Mostly it's only this one, not the other two, and maybe it's just because the show was still just ramping up, but the townspeople seemed so blank to me. When Emily's aunt kept going on about the common good (which I have never hated more than here), she had zero emotion. And the sheriff, too. They totally lack any sort of dimension, and it was weird. Emily was super super cool though, especially when torching the sacred tree without a second thought, and Sam and Dean's breakup and reunion was adorbs, and I got to finally see Meg's first appearance! Is it just me or does she have an accent here that she doesn't really have when she returns later in season 1?
animus_wyrmis linking me to fic all day, tonight I watched Provenance and Scarecrow for the first time. It was sort of exciting! Now that I have been disillusioned and know that SPN 6 doesn't start til the 24th, maybe my goal should be to watch the rest of the Season 1-3 episodes I skipped on the Great Supernatural Marathon of the spring. Because these were really really good, and omg, season 1 Sam is adorable, I remember liking him so much and then I stopped and when did that happen? He has nice hair, and he's so dorky and into art history and research and where did that Sammy go? Also, when did Dean stop being nice to Sam? Seriously, going back to this earlier time, it's so clear now just how crazy their relationship is in the later seasons. It really moves from lalalala we're brothers, allalala, the two best friends that anyone could have, hunt hunt hunt, fight breakup get back together where's dad?, to epic semi-erotic codependency, and I think I miss the former!Anyway. So I watched these out of order, since wyrm linked me to this: http://hateable.livejournal.com/156492.html and so then I had to go watch 1.19, Provenance. In which basically Dean sits around trying to be Sam's wingman, and Sam flirts awkwardly with Sarah Blake, the art dealer's awesome daughter. Except he didn't really flirt. That's what I liked about it - he was so straight up with her, like when she asked how Dean got into the warehouse or whatever, and Sam says 'lies and subterfuge, mostly.' He doesn't gloss over stuff with her! I want that to blend with his relationship with Jess. I want Jess to be alive, and to know about the hunting life, and yeah. Anyway, this episode was awesome. Dean says, "Sam. Marry her." And I cried. And there was a creepy painting but lo! it was not the creepy father, it was the creepy little adopted girl - and we veer straight into the plot of that horror movie Orphan, the one where the 30-something woman pretends to be a little girl so she can get adopted and kill her foster families. Yep. So Dean saves the day, and Sam gets the girl, and it was adorable and fun and I looooved it.
And then I watched 1.11, Scarecrow, because I wanted to know about this Emily chick. And I loved this one, too! Pagan fertility divinities, APPLE PIE OMG DEAN I just about wept when he threw that line about like, hope your apple pie's worth it, or whatever, because Deaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, and his apple-pie life, and arrrrgh. Here's one thing though - I'm not sure I approve of the fact that whenever there's some sort of ancient god involved - this one, Samhain, that one with the couple who make wreaths and tear Sam and Dean's nails out - the people who are trying to honor/raise/placate that pagan god are presented as like, blank and sort of unmotivated. Mostly it's only this one, not the other two, and maybe it's just because the show was still just ramping up, but the townspeople seemed so blank to me. When Emily's aunt kept going on about the common good (which I have never hated more than here), she had zero emotion. And the sheriff, too. They totally lack any sort of dimension, and it was weird. Emily was super super cool though, especially when torching the sacred tree without a second thought, and Sam and Dean's breakup and reunion was adorbs, and I got to finally see Meg's first appearance! Is it just me or does she have an accent here that she doesn't really have when she returns later in season 1?
